High temperature cleaning, engine parts
High temperature cleaning, engine parts
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So what do all here think about high temp cleaning of cast iron engine parts? From what I understand the temps used are around the 700 to 800 F range.
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RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
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RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
Won't touch the crap in the water jacket.
If you're allowed to use solvents, why bother?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
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Pat
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RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
You also have to sandblast afterwards to remove the ash. That puts back some of the labor content you didn't need for the burning, and greatly increases the volume and weight of the toxic waste stream you must pay to get rid of.
It probably makes sense in California.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
RE: High temperature cleaning, engine parts
The heat is unevenly applied and unevenly removed so some parts expand more than others creating stress. The stress is then relieved by further heating then the new form is frozen in during cooling.
The heat goes high enough to break down the crystal structure to some degree, then the rate of cooling causes a different crystal structure and shrinkage. The different shrinkage causes warping.
This is all happening in 3 dimensions throughout the part, with the section thickness and temperature gradients all impacting.
Regards
Pat
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